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Zionism is a movement for the creation and development of a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel, the ancestral homeland of the Jews^[1] based on the principle of self-determination.^[2] The modern movement started in 19th-century Europe as a reaction to the systemic antisemitism and two millennia of brutal persecutions of European Jews.^[3]

Zionism has had many different varieties that all shared the goal of creating a homeland for the Jewish People. The dominant variety at first was political Zionism, led by Theodor Herzl, but it later lost ground to the socialist Labor Zionism. Zionism led to the creation of the State of Israel, with David Ben-Gurion as the founder, whose early citizens were mostly Holocaust survivors.

1. ↑ "Zionism". Britannica. October 17, 2024. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
2. ↑
   • "Zionism". Anti-Defamation League. September 1, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
   • "Antisemitism defined: Why opposing the Jewish people's right to self-determination is antisemitic". World Jewish Congress. May 12, 2022. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
   • "An Open Letter to Anti-Zionists from a Veteran of the Left". Fathom Journal. 2022. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
3. ↑ Lustick, Ian S. (2003). "Zionist Ideology and Its Discontents: A Research Note". Israel Studies Forum. 19 (1): 98–103. ISSN 1557-2455. JSTOR 41805179.